• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s sad is how little our country knows of war outside of the US propaganda machine. We spend more on war in one year than the next ten countries combined, and those countries mostly have health care systems that don’t bankrupt their people. Canada, for instance, spends a mere 23 billion a year on war.

    We on the other hand don’t have health care so our country can involve itself in eight or nine wars at once, and our people think it’s a good thing because they can’t form a coherent thought outside of what they’re being told on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

    • Blissingg@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “Our” that’s one big assumption there brother not everyone here is American. I don’t know why you assume the U.S military budget is stopping Universal care being a thing over there it’s a far more deeply rooted issue than just the military budget. Look how contentious even something like the Obama care was never mind a full blow universal care system.

    • Airazz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      US spends about as much per capita on healthcare as many other developed countries. The issue is that your insurance companies pocket a lot of it. Be angry at them, not at Ukraine or the weapons going to Ukraine.

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      The US would actually spend less on healthcare if we had a single-payer or other “socialist” system instead of the mess we currently have. So that line of reasoning doesn’t make sense. We don’t make war instead of spending on health care. We make war and spend on health care.

    • ElZoido@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The reason that the US doesn’t have universal healthcare is not it’s military support for Ukraine.